What Does the Future Hold for Low-Income Students at Private Colleges?
Recent efforts by private colleges to enroll more low-income students will yield only “marginal” increases compared with the projected rise in the overall number of such students during the next two decades, according to a new paper by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. In their paper, “The Poor and the Rich: A Look at Economic Stratification and Academic Performance Among Undergraduate Students in the United States,” John Aubrey Douglass and Gregg Thomson compare the percentage of Pell Grant recipients at a group of selective colleges and universities, a topic that was the subject of special reports by The Chronicle in 2006 and 2008. The researchers then examine the characteristics of low-income students in the University of California system. Among the findings: The system enrolled a “strikingly high” number of low-income students compared with 24 other selective institutions. In general, those students had only slightly lower grade-point averages than their wea
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